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Transcript: Layton Lamsam

Native medical students worry about losing touch with their communities

[Lamsam:]
My first summer in college, I attended a summer program specifically for Native Americans interested in medical school, and what I learned there was a tremendous amount about the medical world, but one thing I noticed was that all of the premedical students that I talked to who were Native American, they wanted to go into medicine to help their tribe, help their people, and they were always concerned about, you know, after going through 12 years of medical education, they wouldn't know their communities anymore, because they would have been away.